Securing the set
In late October, film-making faced its worst-case scenario. On the New Mexico set of the Western “Rust,” the actor Alec [...]
About Endlessness
A painting may capture a single moment in time, but given some contemplation, the overall narrative can endure. Likewise in [...]
Promising Young Woman
Anyone can recognize someone showing great promise, even without the benefit of a resume. Consider people in Cassie’s (Mulligan) life. [...]
Back to the cinema
If you look for it, you can see it. Just as the house lights dim, and right before the instant [...]
The Courier
Far from the usual take on the Cuban Missile Crisis, “The Courier” seems worlds away from the tense drama of [...]
Annette
New film critic Steve Piazza begins his run with a look at a highly-acclaimed but immensely quirky musical that comes out bittersweet.
COVID, meet SCABET
I was always a fan of apocalypse movies. Not the kind that overwhelms you with monsters and aliens, and special [...]
No Hollywood ending
If widescreen Hollywood ever had just cause to lapse into melancholy about its future prospects, that time is now. With [...]
The invisible stalker
In H.G. Wells’s 1897 “The Invisible Man,” Griffin, a scientist and student of optics, carries out a rogue experiment to [...]
“Improving” the inferno
Perhaps the best way of approaching Sam Mendes's hell-on-earth World War I saga "1917" is by describing its uncomplicated premise. [...]